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When a land mine exploded in the midst of Indian troops in the Middle East, it left 60 casualties with broken eardrums in one or both ears. Of the wounded, the ones who fared best were those whose unwashed ears were plugged with accumulated wax...
What really started the corn sprouting on Broadway was a lugubrious tune by Louisiana's Jimmie Davis called It Makes No Difference Now. In the late '30s Decca's Recording Chief David Kapp heard this Texas hit and got it on wax. Within a few months record buyers were clamoring for Decca's later Bing Crosby version. Shrewd David Kapp barged wholesale into the hillbilly field, boomed local hits into national smashes by giving them successive recordings by bigger & bigger names. Thus, Crosby became the most popular singer of hillbilly as well as other popular music...
...little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known how to adapt the solo flight to military needs. He would have flown an army in. It was clearly the only...
...from the third deck so I investigated. . . I found a real jive session in progress and learned that they were rehearsing for a Record Hop on July 14 . . . FRANK DAVIS, JAMES OLIVER, F. GLENETT and M. LYSING will give out to all the solid senders instead of the usual wax discs. . . that should be very good between...
...wax-sealed brief case Joe Davies brought back a sealed letter from Joseph Stalin to Franklin Roosevelt. The contents, known only to the principals, were certainly historic, perhaps were history-making in the profoundest international sense...